I just replaced the batteries on PACO and ROJ’s A1000 RAID arrays.

ROJ’s battery had actually gone bad, and both were beyond the expiration date. Both were covered under our maintenance contract.

To replace the batteries, the unit must be powered off. The replacement is simply sliding out the old canister and sliding in the new one. Once the system has been restarted, the command ‘raidutil -c target -R’ must be executed to reset the battery age counter on the device.

I also removed the two extra 36 GB drives from ROJ that we had gotten for the AMANDA backups. These will be used in EYEWI for addition onto the disk storage unit.